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The Iliad of Homer - Homer & Richmond Lattimore

By Homer & Richmond Lattimore

Release Date: 2011-09-19

Genre: Poetry

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ā€œSing, goddess, the anger of Peleusā€™ son Achilleus / and its devastation.ā€ For sixty years, thatā€™s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimoreā€™s faithful translationā€”the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimoreā€™s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first centuryā€”while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimoreā€™s elegant, fluent versesā€”with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greekā€”remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.

The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homerā€™s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes livedā€”and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

The Iliad of Homer - Homer & Richmond Lattimore

By Homer & Richmond Lattimore

Release Date: 2011-09-19

Genre: Poetry

3.5 (13 ratings)
Read Download
ā€œSing, goddess, the anger of Peleusā€™ son Achilleus / and its devastation.ā€ For sixty years, thatā€™s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimoreā€™s faithful translationā€”the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimoreā€™s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first centuryā€”while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimoreā€™s elegant, fluent versesā€”with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greekā€”remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.

The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homerā€™s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes livedā€”and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

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